WALNUT, CA - The gun sounded, as the lady Dons were no where to be seen at the line. From the shadows of the masses, however, the Dons reappeared after starting from behind the rest of the field. The lady Dons were told that they could do a stride and as they did, the race began - without them. The lady Dons hurried to catch stride with the rest of the field, yet never really positioned themselves where they had hoped. However, the Dons still managed a third place finish behind the 19:39-19:43 efforts of Gina Tai and Jessica Sunio. The rest of the pack was not as lucky as the first two, as they were eaten by the pack early on, left only to use their energy to work they way back to the front leaving them stuck between 21:14 and 21:53, far off their goal paces. In the sophomore girls race, Connie Caliz also finished under 22 minutes.

The boys also were a bit out of position with two of their top seven missing from the varsity races. However, the 1-2-3 finish of the Dons was oddly familiar behind sophomore Ganesh Tilve (17:00), senior Jonathan Liang, and Matthew Chern heading the charge. The junior varsity boys had the best performances with Keith Domon and Kelvin Huang leading the way, while the freshmen boys were paced by Frank Lee and Joshua Quarles.